Euronews

Russian police are reported to have detained at least 100 people amid protests against Vladimir Putin’s election as president.

In Moscow’s Pushkin Square, where a rally had been approved by the authorities, police moved in at the end to remove people.

Elsewhere in the capital about 50 people at an unauthorised protest were held; in St Petersburg dozens were arrested at another unofficial rally.

“Many Russians, especially in Moscow, are not going to accept Vladimir Putin as a legitimate president. And even if Putin survives March and the next two months prior to the inauguration, he’s badly wounded, maybe even deadly wounded as a political leader and I have no doubt that he will not survive the next six years,” said chess champion-turned-activist Garry Kasparov.